Re: Problem getting ALSA working on Dell Inspiron 4150

[Alejandro Vartabedian <avartabedian@webservices.com.uy>]

what about 'discover' it?

good luck!

pd: apt-get install discover
i suggest replace hotplug by discover

Juraj Ziegler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:48:49AM +0200, Peter Frühberger wrote:
>
> > Peter Frühberger wrote:
> >
> > > Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > ****** REQUEST *******
> > > > Could someone with an Inspiron with *working* alsa sound please reply to
> > > > this message with the contents of /proc/asound/cards, please?
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to see if there's supposed to be something showing up there
> > > > besides the i810 modem.
> > > >
> > > > - Joe
> >
> > Okay, it comes to my mind, now, sorry, just got up. I had nearly the
> > same problem.
> >
> > boot up you kernel und make a lsmod, look, if you moduls are all loaded
> > lsmod |grep 8x0 should give you:
> > snd_intel8x0m          20424  2
> > snd_intel8x0           35528  1
> > snd_ac97_codec         70212  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
> > snd_pcm                98888  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_page_alloc         11848  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> > snd_mpu401_uart         8064  1 snd_intel8x0
> > snd                    56612  19
> > snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,
> > snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> >
> > , if not your config file of the modules is broken (happened for me from
> > 2.6.6 to 2.6.7).
> >
> > There is a tool shiped with debian in
> > /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/examples/generate-modprobe.conf.gz
>
>
> On a 2.6.x kernel, I would rather give up modprobe.conf and just run the
> hotplug daemon. Works fine for all PCI, USB and PCCard/PCMCIA devices. At
> least on all my machines :).
>
> j.